FIFTY-FOUR FORTY OR FIGHT

in U.S. history, phrase commonly used by extremists in the controversy with Great Britain over the Oregon country. The rights of the United States, they maintained, extended to the whole region, i.e., to lat. 54°40′N, the recognized southern boundary of Russian America. It was used as a campaign slogan in the presidential election of 1844 by Democrat James K. Polk, who was elected.

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Adolf Douai, 1819-1888: The Turbulent Life of a German Forty-Eighter in the Homeland and in the United States
Book by Justine Davis Randers-Pehrson; Peter Lang, 2000
Subjects: Douai, Adolf--1819-1888, Educators--United States--Biography, Forty-Eighters (American Immigrants)--Biography, German Americans--Biography, Germany--History--Revolution, 1848-1849, Political Activists--Germany--Biography, Political Activists--United States--Biography, Texas--Politics And Government--1846-1865, United States--Politics And Government--1849-1877
then I would have continued the fight with some hope of ultimate suc- cess...areas, the long tedious one hundred and fifty miles to the port of Indianola, where...Secret meetings had been going on for four months, and the seeds of disaffection...
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Quest for the Golden Circle: The Four Corners and the Metropolitan West, 1945-1970
Book by Arthur R. GÓmez; University of New Mexico Press, 1994
Subjects: Four Corners Region--Economic Conditions, Four Corners Region--History
...uncontested champion of the Four Corners. Locals dubbed...lived with his wife and four active little ones. The...Lisbon Valley anticline forty miles southeast of Moab...Vida Mine produced nearly fifty times the amount of uranium...ores. 28 "For the past fifty years Moab has been known...
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Spiritual History: A Reading of William Blake's Vala, or the Four Zoas
Book by Andrew Lincoln; Oxford University Press, 1995
Subjects: Blake, William--1757-1827--Four Zoas, Historical Poetry, English--History And Criticism, Philosophy In Literature, Prophecies In Literature
...Spectres armies, led by Urizens four sons. 19 The Four winged heralds recall the four cherubic shapes that move...in human history than the fight and defeat of Satan. The...ofIndependence: The raising of fifty-two armies from his Urizens...
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Forty Years of American Life, 1821-1861
Book by Thomas Nichols Low; Stackpole Sons, 1937
Subjects: United States--Description And Travel, United States--Social Life And Customs
...hurrahs for Polk and Dallas, Texas, Oregon, Fifty-four-forty-or-fight! ,A torchlight procession of twenty thousand...alliterative war-cry may need explanation. "Fifty-four-forty" was the line of latitude claimed by...
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Puritan's Progress: An Informal Account of Certain Puritans & Their Descendants from the American Revolution to the Present Time, Their Manners & Customs, Their Virtues & Vices. Together with Some Possibly Forgotten Episodes in the Development of American Social & Economic Life during the Last One Hundred & Fifty Years
Book by Arthur Train; Charles Scribners Sons, 1931
Subjects: Puritans, Train Family, United States--Social Life And Customs
...Phrygians for all he knew of it; and such things as "Fifty-four Forty or Fight!" and the "Wilmot Proviso" had no place in his...Lusitania . Although I am at the present writing fifty-four years of age, it so happens that I have met but...
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EduQuest Models Thirty, Forty and Fifty: Custom Computers for K-12
Journal article by Terian Tyre; T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), Vol. 20, 1993
Subjects: IBM EduQuest 30 (386-based system)--Product introduction, IBM EduQuest 40 (486-based system)--Product introduction, IBM EduQuest 50 (486-based system)--Product introduction, International Business Machines Corp. EduQuest--Product introduction
...EduQuest models Thirty, Forty and Fifty: custom computers for...Models Thirty, Forty and Fifty are built-in multimedia...768 for Models Forty and Fifty, come standard. In addition...speech synthesis and four kinds of voice-recognition...
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Whose Fix Is It, Anyway?: A Closer Look at Hemingway's "Fifty Grand"
Journal article by James Tackach; The Hemingway Review, Vol. 19, 2000
Subjects: Boxers (Sports)--Portugal, Fifty Grand (Short story)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Gambling--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Hemingway, Ernest--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...and Jack wins the fight but loses his bet...Morgan. During the fight, Jack maintains his integrity; he fights to win, even though winning would cost him fifty grand. Jack decides...his profession--the fights to win a championship...participates in no pre-fight fix; he takes no dive...Rosemary R. "Hemingways `Fifty Grand and the Jack Britton...
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Platt, Jennifer. Fifty Years of the International Social Science Council
Journal article by Harold M. Green; International Social Science Review, Vol. 79, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Fifty Years of the International Social Science Council (Book)--Book reviews
...Green Platt, Jennifer. Fifty Years of the International...secondary consideration. In Fifty Years of the International...1992 unpublished study, Forty Years of the International...study of the ISSC. Her fifty-year conspectus traces...the council, in 1974, four ambitious interdisciplinary...
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The Man-Hunting Tiger: From "Wu Song Fights the Tiger" in Chinese Traditions
Journal article by Vibeke Bordahl; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 66, 2007
Subjects: China--History, China--Social aspects, Chinese folklore--Criticism and interpretation, Wu Song Fights the Tiger (Folk tale)--Criticism and interpretation
...either in the short form "Wu Song Fights the Tiger" Wu Song da hu, or the full line "Wu Song Fights a Tiger on Jingyang Ridge" Jingyanggang...REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII, is used, for example "fight the tiger," da hu TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE...pain and suffering of the animal. The fight is by no means funny, and the protagonists...APPENDIX: Six instances of "Wu Song Fights the Tiger" Note: Each item is identified...
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Why Nations Fight
Journal article by Christopher Coker; Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 25, 2011
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Why Nations Fight (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
Why Nations Fight. by Christopher Coker Why Nations Fight, Richard Ned Lebow...According to Lebow, four generic motives have...nineteen of the ninety-four wars that he subjects...mysterious glitch caused fifty missiles to go offline...
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So Help Me God: What All Fifty-Four Inaugural Addresses, Taken as One Long Book, Tell Us about American History
Magazine article by Ted Widmer; American Scholar, Vol. 74, Winter 2005
Subjects: Inaugural addresses--Analysis, United States history--Analysis
...sequence, the fifty-four inaugural addresses...Suddenly, I had forty-two new friends...appears in forty-two of fifty-four perorations...knows what the fifty-fifth inaugural...about our next four years. It...there will be forty-two other...
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Snow Treasures: Janet Voke Describes How Fifty Tons of Gold Were Evacuated from Norway Four Hours Ahead of the Nazi Invasion in Spring 1940
Magazine article by Janet Voke; History Today, Vol. 59, February 2008
Subjects: German foreign relations--Military aspects, Gold--Transportation, National socialists--History, Norway--History
...was a special cargo, forty of the fifty tons of Norways gold...meanwhile the other (just four hours ahead of the Germans...other containers with fifty tons of gold bars, ten...drivers for twenty-four fish vans to transport...British troops, needed to fight on Europes mainland...
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Surge Behind: An Ill-Timed but Illuminating Romp through the Golden Age of Grassroots Democratic Enthusiasm-A Whole Twenty-Four Months Ago
Magazine article by Walter Shapiro; Washington Monthly, Vol. 42, November 2010
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...Enthusiasm-A Whole Twenty-Four Months Ago. by Walter...Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic...Illinois state senate just four years earlier was routinely...in 1960 ran the last fifty-state presidential...200,000 each for forty targeted House races...telling. If three or four years truly represent...
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Previews: Three Times a Year Artforum Looks Ahead to the Coming Season. the Following Survey Previews Fifty Shows Opening around the World between January and April
Magazine article; Artforum International, Vol. 46, January 2008
Subjects: Exhibitions--Calendars
...Following Survey Previews Fifty Shows Opening around the...than one hundred works by forty-four artists, each of whom...garage. Comprising roughly fifty-eight works from the...performance in this show of some forty works made since 1973...
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Previews: Three Times a Year Artforum Looks Ahead to the Coming Season. the Following Survey Previews Fifty Shows Opening around the World between September and December
Magazine article; Artforum International, Vol. 47, September 2008
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Calendars, Art--Calendars, Art--Exhibitions
...work from the past fifty years proves that...installations, presents four new works, including...gathered more than forty artists--including...exhibition chronicle fifty-four years of national...sixty-two works by fifty-seven artists borrowed...
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Fifty Medics Fight to Save Blaze Girls
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), December 19, 2007
Fifty Medics Fight to Save Blaze Girls. Byline...burned in house explosion FOUR teenage girls remained critical...days will be crucial for the four who were badly burned when...to save their lives. All four were last night on life support...
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Fifty 5 Diner, Llanddulas; TASTE TEST
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), July 9, 2011
Fifty 5 Diner, Llanddulas...Llanddulas, and the Fifty 5 Diner just off Junction...surprise, only about four tables in the very spacious...fashioned nofancy options. Fifty 5 Diner - whats wrong...like and let the food fight it out inside." Hear...
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We're the Swofties! ...That's Single Women over Fifty. They're Working, Partying, Financially Independent, Get on with Their Grown -Up Kids and Count Meryl Streep and Kim Cattrall among Their Heroines. but Are They Happy? You Bet They Are!
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 3, 2010
...Thats Single Women over Fifty. Theyre Working, Partying...Byline: by Tanya Sweeney FORTY may be the new 30...the Swofties. Here are four such women explain why...his now. I separated four years ago, and no matter...anyone elses. Flirty at fifty: Annie Gribbin says that...
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WALES: Fifty Jobs Will Go as Wales' Last Clay Brickworks Closes; Bosses Blame National Slump in Housing
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), April 1, 2008
Subjects: Dwellings, Housing
WALES: Fifty Jobs Will Go as Wales Last Clay Brickworks...site until the leftover bricks are sold. Forty years worth of rawmaterial and the firms...company has already been forced to shut down four factories in the last 18 months kelly...
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It's My TurNER; Fifty Years Ago, the Irrepressible Lord Beaverbrook Gave a Fabulous Collection of British Pictures to a Gallery He Built in New Brunswick - or Did He? Godfrey Barker on the Family That's Fighting Canada
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 18, 2007
Its My TurNER; Fifty Years Ago, the Irrepressible Lord Beaverbrook...thundering on the lid with his boots. Forty-five years on, a fresh generation of...Angela OFerrall remain a London item with four children. Maxwell in 2007 is, among other...
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Fifty-Four Forty or Fight
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FIFTY-FOUR FORTY OR FIGHT in U.S. history, phrase commonly used by extremists in the controversy with Great Britain over the Oregon country. The rights...
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United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Oregon ), Americans demanded "Fifty-four forty or fight," under President Polk a peaceful...gold in 1848 brought the rush of forty-niners, swelling population...the Kyoto Protocal (designed to fight global warming ) and the Antiballistic...
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Benton, Thomas Hart , U.S. Senator
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...admission to the Union in 1821 and was four times reelected. A supporter...Fremont , who married one of his four daughters, Jessie Benton Fremont...Democratic campaign slogan of 1844 "Fifty-four forty or fight." As to Texas, although he...
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Washington , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...executive branch is headed by a governor elected for a four-year term. The legislature has a senate with 49...Columbia River country up to a lat. of 54 40N. "Fifty-four forty or fight" became a slogan in the 1844 election campaign...
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Oregon , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...executive branch is headed by a governor elected for a four-year term. Its legislature has a senate with 30...40N; one of the slogans of the 1844 election was "Fifty-four forty or fight." War with Britain was a threat momentarily, but...
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